This Sorry Sad Sailor

"Son," I said, "Sit down, on this here knee.
Let me tell you, of a sorry sad sailor
Who sailed the wide sea.
This sorry sad sailor sailed
far and further
Singing his sorry sad sailor song.

There, in the hatch, he lay,
Forevermore, into the day,
Playing his C keyed harp
And singing his sorry sad sailor song.

His crew mates blew on the sails
And flowed against the rudder.
Sailing next to the whales
Who mourned this sorry sad sailor.

Far and further he drifted,
Sorry and sad as a sailor can be,
Till the seventh, he surfaced to the deck,
And dived below the sea,
To escape the stars that shone so sinisterly."

by Bourne
posted on 03/02/2008